Chelsea manager says five-substitute rule needs to return‘I get the feeling everybody is refusing to think about it’Thomas Tuchel has said he will not stop standing up for his
Chelsea players after conceding he has “zero per cent” understanding as to why the
Premier League is set to muddle through a chaotic winter with only three substitutes and suggested “everybody is refusing” to consider a return to five permitted changes. Before Chelsea host Brighton on Wednesday, Tuchel questioned that logic and said players require protection from the league.
The Chelsea manager reiterated he has no problem with the congested schedule but said he is baffled at the reluctance to reintroduce five substitutes, which were permitted at the height of the pandemic. “I absolutely cannot understand, zero per cent, why we are the only league who plays through winter and we are the only league with three substitutes in a period of heavy, heavy Covid threat and situations,” Tuchel said.